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What in the world is a grown woman doing collecting Barbie dolls, let alone blogging about it? It mean, really?! What is the world coming to? LOL I've heard those sentiments so many times and guess what? I don't care. I love my Barbies!

The name of this blog came from my brother. He would look at the Barbies in my bedroom and the dolls that came in when I ordered, shake his head and say "Vanessa, Don't just play Barbie, be Barbie!" Thus the title of this blog. If he had any idea that he would contribute to this I'm sure he would have kept that comment to himself.

Anyhoo, I'm just doing this to have fun and relieve a bit of stress. I'm also incorporating my love for fashion and accessories into this blog. Stay tuned and feel free to join in. :)

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Thursday, October 19, 2006

Barbie, introduced in 1959, helped boost Mattel 's third quarter sales 7%, driving its stock to a 52-week high on Monday.

The company cited strong sales of Barbie, which the company calls a "fashion" doll, Little People, TMX Elmo and toys related to "Cars," an animated film released by Walt Disney (nyse: DIS - news - people )'s Pixar.

TMX Elmo is the tenth anniversary edition of Sesame Street's popular Elmo doll and is marketed by Mattel unit Fischer Price.

"We think that in the near term, Mattel stock will trade on the fortunes of Barbie, the company's most important and most iconic product in its line," Gerrick Johnson, an analyst at BMO Capital Markets, said in a research report. "While other product lines can generate marginal and incremental sales and profit, we think investor focus will remain on Barbie for some time. Barbie is still in turnaround mode, but we think the brand is gaining some momentum."

Johnson believes Mattel can generate earnings per share of $1.25 in 2006, $1.40 in 2007 and $1.55 in 2008. The estimates include the Radica Games (nasdaq: RADA - news - people ) acquisition announced earlier this month, which the analyst believes will add about five cents a share in annual earnings.

BMO Capital Markets maintained an "outperform" on Mattel.

"We view the rest of the 2006 product line positively and think the company is picking up market share and shelf space and that the company's financial performance will reflect this strong product performance," Johnson said.

The toy maker's sales figures included a 5% gain in domestic sales and a 12% increase in international sales.Mattel reported third-quarter net income of $239 million, or 62 cents a share, compared with $225.3 million, or 55 cents a share, for the same period a year ago. Current earnings beat Wall Street's consensus by one cent.Net sales for the third quarter were $1.7 billion, up about 7% from the same period a year ago.

Mattel closed Monday at $21.30, up 60 cents or 2.9%. The 52-week range is $14.52 to $20.75.

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Barbie History

Barbie was named for a real young lady from California named Barbara Handler. Barbie, the teen fashion doll that debuted in 1959 was created by Barbara's mom, Ruth Handler, who named the doll after her daughter and the rest is doll history.